Sustaining the Workforce: Self-Care and Professional Resilience
July 1, 2026This session addresses burnout, secondary stress, and sustainability for frontline workers. Participants will explore individual and organizational strategies to support long-term wellness and workforce retention.
When Our Clients Age: Adapting Drug User Health for Older Adults
This webinar will help participants build practical skills for assessing and supporting older clients, including those with long-term substance use histories. Participants will explore how aging changes the way drugs affect the body, why overdose risk increases, and how common signs of substance use may present differently in older adults.
Complementary and Integrative Approaches in Substance Use Care
This training introduces complementary and integrative practices that can support individuals navigating substance use, including mindfulness, body-based approaches, and culturally grounded care models.
Trauma-Informed Care: Practical Tools for the HIV Prevention Workforce
May 28, 2026This webinar provides an overview of trauma-informed care and its application across clinical and programmatic HIV settings. Participants will explore how trauma impacts health behaviors, engagement in care, and service delivery, and will be introduced to practical, evidence-informed tools that can be integrated into everyday practice.
LoveHER: Exploring Intimacy, Confidence & Connections
January 27, 2026LoveHER, a live, virtual event, with Howard University’s Empower Peer Educators, was designed to advance sexual health awareness, promote body positivity, and address the unique experiences of Black women in contemporary cultural contexts. The 90-minute session engaged participants in evidence-informed discussions and interactive activities, fostering both knowledge acquisition and personal empowerment.
Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: The Seven Therapeutic Tasks, Skills and Strategies
May 9, 2025Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy consists of seven therapeutic tasks: managing the therapeutic alliance, the therapeutic relationship heals, enhancing self-management, assessment as treatment, embracing ambivalence, harm reduction goal setting and personalized planning for positive change.
Transforming Pleasure and Wellness: Party Culture and Harm Reduction
April 1, 2025This panel discussion explores the intersection of pleasure, party culture, and harm reduction. Panelists will share insights on fostering wellness, promoting safety, and addressing substance use in social settings, emphasizing inclusive, judgment-free strategies to support informed and empowered choices.
Engaging and Healing: A Trauma Informed Approach
This session provides an in-depth exploration of trauma-informed care, emphasizing the importance of recognizing trauma’s pervasive impact and integrating responsive practices. Participants will gain insights into fostering trust, promoting safety, and empowering individuals through culturally sensitive, evidence-based approaches that prioritize healing and resilience.
Improving Equity in PrEP for PEH Through Structural Interventions
January 25, 2024Over the course of this 75-minute on-demand webinar, faculty discuss structural interventions to enhance engagement of PEH in PrEP care and improve equity in PrEP access.
Destigmatization of Drug Use
June 2, 2023This session explores the impact of stigma on people who have been diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD) and those who are not clinically diagnosed but display symptoms. The presenter examines the relationship between stigma and systemic racism, as well as racism’s compounding effect on access to healthcare services for people who use drugs. The presenter also provides strategies for challenging stigma and misconceptions about SUD.
The New Paradigm in Addiction Treatment: Introduction to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP), Clinical Rationale, Theory and Technique
March 30, 2023Drawing on relational, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness therapies, IHRP techniques are uniquely tailored to each person. A central focus on therapeutic alliance and relationship creates a safe context in which to clarify the meanings and functions of risky and addictive behavior, enhance self-regulation and develop alternative healthier, self-affirming solutions.
